Demand for travel to Japan, which had plummeted amid the COVID-19 pandemic, has started to recover since the country drastically eased its COVID-19 border controls last autumn, but hopes are tempered this year that it will rise back to pre-pandemic levels.
The number of foreign visitors to Japan totaled about 930,000 in November, reaching nearly 40% of the level in November 2019, before the pandemic, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
Japan lifted most of its…